Saturday, April 11, 2015

There are game shows in which
participants make good money by winning ! ~there may not be instances of a
contestant awarded a free car worth Rs.14 lakhs approx, thanks to a blunder by
the gameshow model mistakenly exposing the right answer !!!In
mid-1980s“Quiz Time” in Doordarshan
conducted by Siddhartha Basu was a big hit.Perhaps it was the harbinger of similar knowledge shows on media.There was Kavita Agarwal, later Radha Seth as hostess,
who would simply say ‘the quiz master’s decision is final !’

In a
Crazy Mohan comedy drama – there would be a Quiz, where one would set-up the
other 2 teams to enable their easy win.One Q would be – who was the first PM of India ~the Master would provide
the clue too, as starting with N and ending with Ru [in Tamil with no word in
between !] – even that would not be answered.Then a photo would be shown – that card would change cards, where the
man would say – it is Sunil Gavaskar, for it is written below… [they would have
forgotten to cut the description in that page !!!]

The post is about
the contest - "The Price is Right".Drew Carey, American Actor, comedian, Sports executive is the game show
host.After serving in the U.S. Marine
Corps and making a name for himself in stand-up comedy, Carey eventually gained
popularity and has hosted comedy shows. Carey has appeared in several films,
television series, music videos, a made-for-television film, and a computer
game. He has hosted the television game show ‘The Price Is Right’ since 2007.

The Price Is Right
is a television game show franchise originally produced by Mark Goodson and
Bill Todman, and created by Bob Stewart, and is currently produced and owned by
Fremantle Media. The franchise centers on television game shows, but also
includes merchandise such as video games, printed media and board games. The
franchise began in 1956 as a television game show hosted by Bill Cullen and was
revamped in 1972. Since 2007, Drew Carey
has hosted the program.

In the show,
contestants compete to win cash and prizes by guessing the pricing of
merchandise. The program has managed to break away from the quiz show format
that has been used in other game shows. Since the current version premiered, it has
also been adapted in several international formats around the world, most notably
in the United Kingdom, Australia and Mexico. The original version involved four
contestants bidding on a wide array of merchandise prizes, whose values ranged
anywhere from a few dollars, (in many cases, "bonus" prizes were
attached after the fact, to the winner) to thousands, doing so in the manner of
auctions except that the gamehost did not act out the role of auctioneer
(contestants tried to bid closest to the product's actual retail price without
going over that price). Depending on the prize, contestants were allowed, in
proper turn, to make multiple bids; or only allowed one bid. Viewers would submit their bids via post
cards; the winner being announced on the air. At the end of each episode, the
contestant who had won the most (by dollar value) was declared the winner and
became the returning champion, entitled to play again in the next episode.

In
one of its recent episodes occurred the astonishing gaffe by six-year game show veteran Manuela
Arbelaez select giving away the winning
price for a brand-new sedan before the contestant even had a chance to guess.The $29,000 blunder gave on a platter a new car to
a contestant without having to take a chance even asManuela accidentally revealed the price.

Contestant Andrea
was given three chances to guess the price tag of a Hyundai Sonata SE.After model Manuela Arbelaez removed a card
to reveal that Andrea’s first guess was wrong, she accidentally removed
another, unveiling the correct answer. Both the host Drew Carey and contestant
Andrea could not believe the blunder.“I
won it!” screamed Andrea, who was over the moon. Host Drew Carey laughed: “Hey,
congratulations! Manuela just gave you a car!”The car was worth $US21,960 [Rs. 14 lakhs]

The embarrassed model Manuela Abrelaez hugged
Andrea after the blunder. While many
doubted that this blunder would cost her the show,Arbelaez eventually came around, sharing some
funny posts on Twitter stating that nothing untoward happened.

Manuela Arbeláez
Correa, is a Colombian-born American model and actress.Arbeláez became one of the finalists during
the 2008 season of Nuestra Belleza Latina, a beauty contest/reality show hybrid
airing on the U.S. Spanish-language television channel Univision placing sixth
in the competition. Later that year, Arbeláez was one of the five finalists in
The Price Is Right Model Search contest. Each of the finalists appeared as a model
on an episode of the game show in Oct2008n] The winner was chosen by an internet fan vote and won the opportunity
to tape five additional episodes. Although Arbeláez did not win the contest,
she impressed the producers of The Price Is Right and was hired as a model for
the show.